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Movies, Books, Concerts, & TV 2010

2010-01-03T21:44:53Z

Complete List of Movies I've Seen in 2010

	TITLE	RATING	REVIEW
01.	Public Enemies		here
02.	Up in the Air		here
03.	The Karate Kid**
04.	An Education
05.	Bright Star		here
06.	Adam
07.	Donnie Brasco**
08.	Presumed Innocent
09.	The Road
10.	The Eraser
11.	Murder at 1600
12.	Sherlock Holmes
13.	Treeless Mountain
14.	A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
15.	Dancer in the Dark
16.	The Book of Eli
17.	Låt den rätte komma in (Let The Right One In)
18.	Sex and the City: The Movie**
19.	Shutter Island**
20.	Housesitter
21.	Peter and Vandy
22.	Timeline
23.	In The Loop
24.	Shaun of the Dead
25.	Road to Perdition**
26.	It's Complicated
27.	Agora
28.	Precious
29.	Clash of the Titans (1981)
30.	Cape Fear
31.	Outsourced
32.	Waterworld
33.	Paranormal Activity
34.	Little Giants**
35.	Green Zone*
36.	The Insider
37.	Big Fan
38.	Nine
39.	A Serious Man
40.	Ajami
41.	The Young Victoria
42.	Crazy Heart
43.	The Taking of Pelham 123
44.	Gone With The Wind*
45.	Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Män Som Hatar Kvinnor)*
46.	Food, Inc.
47.	Grey Gardens (2009)
48.	Choke
49.	Date Night*
50.	Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
51.	Adaptation**
52.	The Net
53.	HBO: Battle for Tobacco Road
54.	Avatar (x3)
55.	Clerks
56.	Last Chance Harvey
57.	Revanche
58.	Unfaithful
59.	Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
60.	The Proposal
61.	Get Him To the Greek*
62.	Capote
63.	The Special Relationship
64.	Far From Heaven
65.	Duplicity
66.	The Crazies
67.	30 Days of Night
68.	The Big Sleep
69.	Nights and Weekends
70.	The Maid
71.	Toy Story 3*
72.	True Crime
73.	Bride and Prejudice

* in theaters
** not the first viewing

TV Seasons in 2010

	TITLE	RATING
01.	The Office S6
02.	Modern Family S1
03.	CSI S10
04.	Parks & Recreation S2
05.	30 Rock S4
06.	Jersey Shore S1
07.	Legend of the Seeker S2
08.	Biggest Loser S9
09.	American Idol S9
10.	Project Runway S7
11.	Robin Hood S1
12.	Law & Order SVU S10
13.	Law & Order SVU S1
14.	Law & Order SVU S2
15.	Law & Order SVU S9
16.	Law & Order SVU S7
17.	Breaking Bad S3
18.	Nurse Jackie S2
19.	Jazz (Ken Burns) - Episode 1
20.	Law & Order SVU S8
21.	Party Down S2
22.	Real Housewives of New Jersey S2
23.	Friday Night Lights S1

My movie star ratings are based on my ratings on Netflix. They say:
= Hated It
= Didn't Like It
= Liked It
= Really Liked It
= Loved It

Complete List of Books I've Read in 2010

	TITLE	RATING	REVIEW
01.	Wolf Hall, Hillary Mantel
02.	Beloved, Toni Morrison
03.	A Million Little Pieces, James Frey		here
04.	Anthem, Ayn Rand
05.	Wizard's First Rule, Terry Goodkind		here
06.	The Help, Kathryn Stockett		here
07.	The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
08.	The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
09.	In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made, Norman F. Cantor
10.	Web Design All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, Sue Jenkins
11.	Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, John Heilemann, Mark Halperin
12.	The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
13.	The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel, James Lee Burke
14.	Oprah: A Biography, Kitty Kelley
15.	The Swan Thieves, Elizabeth Kostova
16.	The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson
17.	Game Change, John Heilemann, Mark Halperin
18.	The Postmistress, Sarah Blake
19.	The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
20.	The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
21.	In Cold Blood, Truman Capote

My book star ratings are based on my ratings on Goodreads. They say:
= Didn't Like It
= It Was OK
= Liked It
= Really Liked It
= It Was Amazing

Complete List of Concerts I've Seen in 2010

ARTIST

VENUE

DATE

For real...

2009-07-15T02:27:29Z

I'm back. For real this time.

I've done a pretty big friends cut. It is absolutely nothing personal; I have trimmed down to my oldest flist. I have not been a good lj friend to anyone recently, and it's not fair to all those of you that have followed me so faithfully. My apologies to everyone involved, and for those of my oldest friends on here, thanks for sticking me out...

Movies, Books, Concerts, & TV 2009

2009-01-06T01:41:30Z

Complete List of Movies I've Seen in 2009

	TITLE	REVIEW	RATING
01.	Pride and Glory
02.	Blindness
03.	Pineapple Express
04.	Taken*
05.	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
06.	Tristan and Isolde
07.	Dragonheart
08.	Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (I've Loved You So Long)
09.	Titanic*
10.	Bad Boys II
11.	The Reader
12.	The Wrestler
13.	Gran Torino
14.	Doubt
15.	Yes Man
16.	Quarantine
17.	Wall Street
18.	Slumdog Millionaire**
19.	W.
20.	Rachel Getting Married
21.	Flash of Genius
22.	Two Lovers
23.	Bewitched*
24.	Tropic Thunder*
25.	Penelope
26.	The Awful Truth
27.	Watchmen (IMAX)**
28.	Synecdoche, New York
29.	Primal Fear
30.	Australia
31.	La Maison en Petites Cubes (short)
32.	The Terminator
33.	I Love You, Man**	here
34.	Terminator 2: Judgment Day
35.	Religulous
36.	Heat
37.	Happy-Go-Lucky*
38.	Frozen River
39.	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*
40.	Three Days of the Condor
41.	Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
42.	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
43.	Father and Daughter (short)
44.	The Untouchables
45.	Strictly Ballroom
46.	American Teen
47.	Vicky Christina Barcelona
48.	When the Levees Broke
49.	It Happened One Night
50.	Ne le dis à personne (Tell No One)
51.	Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back*
52.	Star Trek**
53.	Angels and Demons**
54.	The Godfather II
55.	The Promotion
56.	Terminator Salvation**
57.	L'Heure D'Ete (Summer Hours)**
58.	Regarding Henry
59.	The Hangover** (x3)
60.	Moonstruck
61.	Ghostbusters
62.	Music and Lyrics
63.	Cleo from 5 to 7
64.	Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince**
65.	Penelope in Wonderland
66.	Sid and Nancy
67.	Diary of the Dead
68.	My Favorite Wife
69.	Paul Blart: Mall Cop
70.	The Client*
71.	A Beautiful Mind*
72.	Slumdog Millionaire*
73.	Blindness*
74.	Funny People**
75.	District 9** (x2)
76.	Julie & Julia**
77.	(500) Days of Summer**
78.	A Few Good Men
79.	Outfoxed: Murdoch's War On Journalism
80.	The Edge
81.	Dogfight
82.	Practical Magic
83.	The Way We Were
84.	Capturing the Friedmans
85.	Lean on Me
86.	The Devil's Advocate
87.	Observe and Report
88.	How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
89.	The Man Who Knew Too Little
90.	The Hurt Locker
91.	Super Troopers
92.	Away We Go
93.	U.S. Marshals
94.	28 Days Later*
95.	Sunshine Cleaning
96.	Duplicity
97.	The Mists of Avalon
98.	Total Recall
99.	Inglourious Basterds
100.	Bruno
101.	The Brothers Bloom
102.	White Christmas
103.	Directors: James Cameron
104.	The Road Home
105.	To Kill a Mockingbird
106.	National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
107.	Home Alone*
108.	Four Christmases
109.	Avatar** (x2)
110.	Elf**
111.	A Christmas Tale
112.	The Invention of Lying
113.	True Lies
114.	Moon
115.	Damned United

* not the first viewing
** in the theaters

TV Seasons I've Completed in 2009

	TITLE	REVIEW	RATING
01.	The Office S5
02.	30 Rock S3
03.	Kath And Kim S1
04.	American Idol S8
05.	Eastbound and Down S1
06.	CSI S9
07.	Breaking Bad S1
08.	Breaking Bad S2
09.	Dexter S4
10.	Project Runway S6
11.	Mad Men S3
12.	FlashForward S1		quit
13.	Glee S1		quit
14.	The Wire S1
18.	Party Down S1
15.	Legend of the Seeker S1
15.	Parks & Recreation S1

My movie star ratings are based on my ratings on Netflix. They say:
= Hated It
= Didn't Like It
= Liked It
= Really Liked It
= Loved It

Complete List of Books I've Read in 2009

(doesn't include books read for school)

	TITLE	REVIEW	RATING
01.	Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
02.	The Sunne in Splendour, Sharon Kay Penman	here
03.	Disquiet, Julia Leigh	here
04.	Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See	here
05.	The Associate, John Grisham
06.	Naked, David Sedaris
07.	The Archer's Tale, Bernard Cornwell
08.	Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher
09.	The Paradise Snare, A.C. Crispin
10.	The Journal of Helene Berr, Helene Berr	here
11.	Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
12.	World War Z, Max Brooks
13.	I Am America, And So Can You, Stephen Colbert
14.	When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
15.	Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Jeff Lindsay
16.	The Alienist, Caleb Carr
17.	Doghead, Morten Ramsland
18.	Dearly Devoted Dexter, Jeff Lindsay
19.	Dreams of my Father, Barack Obama
20.	The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan
21.	To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
22.	Midwives, Jeff Lindsay
23.	The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, Simon Winchester
24.	1984, George Orwell
25.	The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
26.	House of Secrets, Viola M. Walker
27.	Far North, Marcel Theroux
28.	Say You're One of Them, Uwem Akpan
29.	Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín

My book star ratings are based on my ratings on Goodreads. They say:
= Didn't Like It
= It Was OK
= Liked It
= Really Liked It
= It Was Amazing

Complete List of Concerts I've Seen in 2009

	ARTIST	VENUE	DATE
01.	The Killers M83	Madison Square Garden, NYC	Sunday, 1/25 With Sarah
02.	Lykke Li Wildbirds & Peacedrums	Webster Hall, NYC	Monday, 2/2 With Zoe
03.	Neko Case Crooked Fingers	Nokia Theater, NYC	Monday, 4/16 With Mom
04.	Bruce Springsteen	Izod Center, NJ	Thursday, 5/21 With the whole family, plus Broases and Mark
05.	All Points West - Jay-Z, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Vampire Weekend, The National, Neko Case, The Ting Tings, St. Vincent, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, The Postelles, Judah Friedlander, Coldplay, The Black Keys, We Are Scientists, Lykke Li	Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ	Fri-Sun, 7/31-8/2 With Sarah
06.	Bruce Springsteen	Giants Stadium, NJ	Thursday, 9/30 Mom, plus Mendham ladies

Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

2008-12-28T21:15:34Z

View my review for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Here.

In short: I loved it. So. Much. Not a perfect movie by any means, but an experience.

Someone find me icons!

Also, Burn After Reading-- better (and more hilarious) on second viewing. Brad Pitt is really quite fabulous....

Kate and Leo, The Real OTP

2008-12-16T01:55:29Z

Ok, am I the only one who missed the fact that LJ upped the userpics by like 40 or 50 (at least, for permanent members)?? When did this happen?!?! I AM SO HAPPY! I don't really understand why you cannot have an unlimited amount, if they host all those scrapbook pictures for you... But, maybe someday. So, in honor of that, I've been making new icons for the first time in, well, years.

Most of the newest ones I've posted are of Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio.

There is nothing more I need to convince me that these two are the one and only true real OTP. I mean, I have loved them since I was in 6th grade and Titanic first came out. I have grown up with these two. I have had my romantic fantasies and hopes formed around the images of these two. Like so many others, I was waiting for ten full years for them to be paired again. As much as I would want them to be like one of those classic on-screen couples that do dozens of films together because their chemistry cannot be disputed, there is something undeniably special (and smart) about their selectivity. I cannot wait for their next movie come 2018.

A picspam to convince those that still need convincing:

NGGHH.

Don't you wish this was their family??

This was a favorite of mine when it was first released. Still is.

The funny thing is, for as much chemistry as they have, I still don't mind them (and kind of secretly love them) as just best friends. They work best that way. Still, it's clear they love each other so much. Don't you wonder if they've ever hooked up?

And now, for the cutest interview ever...

Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio: EW’s Exclusive Reunion Q&A!
December 11, 2008
More than a decade ago, they stepped aboard "Titanic." They’ve finally reunited for "Revolutionary Road," and this time it’s a marriage that hits an iceberg. A surprising talk with two true friends.

By Karen Valby

‘’Where is that little f—er?'’ says Kate Winslet. Leonardo DiCaprio, her beloved costar, is running late.

Flopping down on a sofa at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria, fanning herself and wondering if a spot of deodorant is in order, Winslet eyes the tray of coffee on the other side of the room and shakes her head. When her friend ?arrives, she wants him to focus. ‘’I better bring that over or trust me, he will be up and down five times,'’ she says with a motherly cluck.

These two know each other well. Twelve years ago they strapped on a pair of harnesses and leaned innocently into the prow of a doomed ship. The Titanic sank, box office soared. Then what was the most expensive movie ever made went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time. Suddenly the young stars couldn’t escape their sudden fame. ‘’We did Titanic and then Leo went off, and I thought, ‘Oh, dear Lord, protect him,”’ says Kathy Bates, who played the Unsinkable Molly Brown. ‘’Because Hollywood can be so destructive. I guess I worried less about Kate, because she was in the English system and I knew she’d have wonderful parts that would keep her feet on the ground. But I knew through it all, they’d be truly, truly friends to each other.'’

Hollywood has been panting to rekindle their romance on screen ever since. However, the duo decided long ago that their days of star-crossed swooning were behind them. It wasn’t until Winslet read Richard Yates’ novel ?Revolutionary Road, a classic tale of ’50s suburban regret about a young married couple desperate to escape the dreariness of their lives, that she figured a reunion was in order.

When DiCaprio enters the room, still looking boyish in his jeans and black Nikes, Winslet can’t help but beam. (On the set of Revolutionary Road, the pair would sometimes pretend to interview each other, each posing as a journalist giddy to know what it’s like for the Titanic stars to be back in each other’s arms.) Winslet, 33, married with two young children, has racked up five Oscar nominations. ?DiCaprio, 34, still single, still reliably in the company of a supermodel, has three nods to his name. ‘’The thing that is amazing for me is they started off on equal footing and they’re still on equal footing,'’ says Winslet’s husband, Oscar-?winning director Sam Mendes, who took the helm of Revolutionary Road. ‘’If you think about Star Wars — there’s an example of a movie that was seismic in the culture at the time — there’s a big difference between what happened to Harrison Ford and what ?happened to Mark Hamill.'’

When Winslet talks of luck, DiCaprio bends toward her and barks in a creaky patrician accent: ‘’Key word, dear. Lucky! Keep using it.'’ She elbows him as if he’s her rascally little brother, and they’re off. Enjoy their banter while you can. ‘’I think they’ll go on doing a movie together only once every 10 years,'’ says Mendes.

KATE WINSLET: Lovefest! [Slapping DiCaprio’s leg] We’ll try very hard not to let it become that.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Please — people have been wanting to see you two back together for over a decade. How scared were you to mess with that original magic?
LEONARDO DICAPRIO: Over the years, I would find myself stopping and saying, ‘’I don’t know if we should do this again.'’ And then I’d think, ‘’What are you, an idiot? Why wouldn’t I want to work with the best actress of her generation? Am I going to be prejudiced against a project just because Kate’s in it?'’ I think we both had been actively looking for something else to do together, but we fundamentally knew that we couldn’t tread on any sort of similar territory.

Which eliminates what?
DICAPRIO: Any type of love story imaginable. [Laughs]
WINSLET: Known to mankind!
DICAPRIO: So what we have here is a profoundly well-written, character-driven story about the dissolving of a relationship. Certainly in Kate’s character there’s that great pursuit not to have her life be predigested —
WINSLET: Predetermined.
DICAPRIO: Yes, better word. You’re right. Good one.
WINSLET: [Gagging] Oh, we’re so cute, we finish each other’s sentences. Cutesy, cutesy!

Your characters have big, go-for-the-jugular fights. Were either of you nervous that those scenes could slip into hamminess?
DICAPRIO: We were both relishing those moments. Reading those sequences where these people are at each other’s throats and having these suburban knockout, drag-out fights? Look, there’s not many actresses like Kate Winslet who you know can endure anything you give them and give it right back.
WINSLET: We have a level of understanding which I really don’t have with another actor that I’ve ever worked with at all.
DICAPRIO: [High-fives Winslet] Yeah, homey!

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Did either of you hear from James Cameron when it was announced you’d be starring together in another movie?
LEONARDO DICAPRIO: Did you?
KATE WINSLET: No. Did you?
DICAPRIO: No. But I don’t think there’s any real reason for him to call us about that.
WINSLET: No, not necessarily. [Pauses] There really isn’t any residual weirdness. Making Titanic was very, very hard, and Jim Cameron is an absolute visionary. Because there was a lot of press around the experience of making Titanic, it’s been very hard for us to talk objectively about it.
DICAPRIO: Because anything that’s said feeds into the ‘’Ooh, the controversy surrounding that movie!'’ I think we have nothing but respect for Jim when we look back at that experience. And it was tough for us to get our heads around. Jim had to be a certain type of director to make that film work. He literally had to command an army of people every single day.
WINSLET: And now that I’m married to a director I absolutely can understand the frustration that if you spent years of your life planning something and somebody shows up to work that day and they’re simply not doing their job, my good God, I can understand how disappointing that would be.
DICAPRIO: [Laughs]
WINSLET: No, I just think it is important to stress that I didn’t walk away from Titanic and think, I’m never speaking to Jim Cameron again. Anyways, that just seemed like a good opportunity for a statement I never get a chance to particularly say.

There are countless examples of how sudden fame can permanently destroy a young person in Hollywood, and yet somehow the two of you emerged intact.
WINSLET: I look back on that time now and I remember thinking, ‘’I'm doing okay, I’m absolutely fine. My life hasn’t changed. I won’t let it! I can just walk to the grocery store and buy milk in my pajamas still. Ahhhh, right, no, I can’t. I have no idea what the hell is going on or how I’m supposed to deal with suddenly having 10 paparazzi there. Oh, okay, ohhhh, I get it. Anonymity, that’s gone.'’ I look back and think, ‘’Jesus, I was seriously ill-equipped emotionally to be able to cope with all of that stuff.'’

Is there any way for a young person to equip oneself for fame?
WINSLET: No, I don’t think so.
DICAPRIO: No.
WINSLET: But it did affect my choices as an actress, definitely. In a good way. It really made me sit and think, ‘’Okay, you know what? Don’t worry about the fact that there’s 10 paparazzi outside the door, don’t worry about the fact that people may be expecting completely different things from you right now just because you’re suddenly so famous. This doesn’t mean anything in the grand scheme of what you love about your job.'’ So in a way, Titanic has played a very big part in being able to hang on to a sense of who I am, because I felt that I had to fight for it then at a very young age.
DICAPRIO: Honestly, it was so bizarre. I just didn’t work for a couple years. I think I did one small cameo? [Looking at Kate]
WINSLET: You did [Woody Allen’s] Celebrity.
DICAPRIO: Then I did Man in the Iron Mask, but that was before Titanic had been released. I think?
WINSLET: Yes, you did Man in the Iron Mask and then you did Celebrity.
DICAPRIO: Thank you, Kate! [Laughing] I think it’s hilarious that I need to ask her.
WINSLET: May I? [Reaching over and rubbing her finger over DiCaprio’s nose] You’ve scratched the top of your nose! Oh, no, we’re literally doing everything we said we wouldn’t do.
DICAPRIO: I know, this is a little too cute. It’s like out of one of those —
WINSLET: Don’t say it!
DICAPRIO: — one of those scenes from When Harry Met Sally… with the old couples. ‘’And I met her in the park in 1992! And she was…'’ ‘’Eating a hot dog!'’ ‘’And I was scratching my butt!'’
WINSLET: Oh, my God, and look at me fussing over your face. I’ve literally turned into a combination of your mother, your sister, and, I don’t know what, your wife!
DICAPRIO: By the way, I really hate talking about post-Titanic because it always sounds to me in print like I’m complaining when I have nothing to complain about. That movie gave both of us tremendous opportunities for what we wanted to do as actors.

Kate, it’s refreshing to meet an actress who’s comfortable admitting, ‘’Hell yeah, I’d like an Oscar!'’ Do you feel the same way, Leo? [Kate lays her head on the sofa and peers up at him.]
DICAPRIO: What’s wrong with you?
WINSLET: I just want to know what you have to say. [Leans into him with a grin]
DICAPRIO: I’m going to be very honest.
WINSLET: I’m just being curious!
DICAPRIO: Listen, I think Kate has been nominated a lot. I think I would probably be somewhat frustrated if I were her, too. [Laughs]
WINSLET: Looooooo-ser!
DICAPRIO: No, no, I’m not saying you’re frustrated, no. But come on, the girl has been nominated a lot. I mean, what’s that figure that she’s going to be the most nominated actress without winning?
WINSLET: [Fake grimaces] Most nominated loser.

Hey, you’ve been nominated a few times yourself. Do you cop to wanting an Oscar?
DICAPRIO: I don’t want to jump into the whole cliché about the honor of being nominated, I’m not going there, even though that’s the truth. I don’t know how to answer — I feel like some people are titled as Oscar-hungry and I would not say that I’m hungry for one. It’s not something I’ve got to have in my life.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: At what point did you both finally grow comfortable with fame?
LEONARDO DICAPRIO: You never get used to it. Post-Titanic, it was more intense than anyone our age has ever dealt with in the history of…anything. It was the modern era of media and paparazzi where they’re organized, with multiple SUVs following you around. I didn’t know it would at the time, but it has way calmed down in my life.
KATE WINSLET: Also, neither of us court the attention. We don’t go to every red-carpet event, even though we sometimes might actually quite like to go if it was a movie a friend was in. We live in a time now where the world has so much access to celebrities and their lives and the color of their underwear.
DICAPRIO: If Titanic came out now, it would be nuts, right?
With websites and camera phones…
DICAPRIO: Camera phones are, I think, harmless. [Dabbing his nose and holding up his blood-splotched napkin] By the way, I’m bleeding profusely. Look at all this blood!
WINSLET: Don’t pick.
DICAPRIO: But then I’m going to have a bloody, clotty thing on my nose.
WINSLET: By rubbing and pressing it you’re making the skin raw.
DICAPRIO: Yes, Mummy. What is unique now is the full-fledged news cameras. They’re hilarious.
WINSLET: Or even just the little DVD cams. I had an experience last year where I was walking my son back from nursery school. I was giving him a piggyback, and literally the whole walk home there was a guy on the other side of the street with a video camera. And I thought, ‘’I have no protection. There’s literally nothing I can do. But I know that what that man is doing is sick because I have a child with me, and I don’t want my children to grow up feeling watched. Ever.'’ So I got home, luckily Sam was there, and he took my son inside. And I went back out and approached this guy and I said, ‘’Listen…'’

In your fiercest or your most charming voice?
WINSLET: In this exact voice. [Eyes lower, voice deepens.] ‘’I need you to hand me that footage right now.'’ And he said, ‘’I can’t, I’m just doing my job.'’ And I said, ‘’No, in this moment right now, you are not just doing your job. You are taking my child’s privacy away and that is definitely inappropriate in the grand scheme of the way the world works. Please, would you hand me that footage?'’ And you know what? He did!
DICAPRIO: No way, that’s nuts. I don’t believe you. I think you’re making that up.
WINSLET: I promise I’m not!

Do your hearts swell at the sight of someone like Zac Efron or now Twilight’s Robert Pattinson being shot out of Hollywood’s cannon?

DICAPRIO: That’s the interesting thing about being an actor. You are also a public figure. Early on I made it my policy that a certain amount of publicity is good — you promote your job, you do your movie, you retain your private life, you don’t divulge everything about yourself. And when I see younger actors getting a tremendous amount of publicity, I say to myself, Well, they’ve been given an unbelievable opportunity, and I hope they know within themselves that all that really matters at the end of the day is the work. All this noise and attention will absolutely deteriorate and there will be a new, fresh piece of meat for the media to focus on within less than a year’s time. So what they should do at this moment is work their asses off to prove to the public and prove to themselves that they can absolutely have a long-term career.

Speaking of your private life, do you ever look at Kate and just think, ‘’Damn, she’s the one who got away.'’ [They look at each other and burst out laughing.]

WINSLET: Say it!
DICAPRIO: [With a weary groan] We’ve always been completely platonic.

They have the most crazy amounts of chemistry. I cannot handle it!

Anyone have any other Leo/Kate pics to share? Or know where I can get more?

Review: Quantum of Solace (2008)

2008-11-16T18:18:13Z

I reviewed Quantum of Solace at my movie blog.

P.S. I still don't get the title.

BARACK OBAMAAAAAA!

2008-11-05T04:12:23Z

OMG, I might cry. I think I'm going to.

Barack Obama is President, people are crying all over the TV, there is GENUINE ELATION EVERYWHERE. If McCain had won, it would not have looked like this, I promise you that. People are shaking, falling over, crying, dancing... HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS???? I haven't, I really haven't.

This is just so special.

I'm just so... proud. So happy.

America is right again.

"This is saying something, not just about our past, but our present and our future."

How can you not be proud of your country tonight? Even if you voted for McCain, as upset as you must be, how can you not be proud of this monumental occasion?

I wonder what it will be like to feel proud of and find hope in my president. That's something I have never experienced. By the time I was paying attention to politics, Bill Clinton was mired in scandal. And then we all know what happened after that.

Now, just get Hillary in that office somewhere with you!

Getting my art on

2008-10-05T18:13:39Z

Lately I've been really into collages (as art) so I've spent all morning tinkering on Photoshop. I also want to make some real, physical pieces so I've ordered an old dictionary from ebay to serve as a source for background paper, old illustrations, quotes, etc. I'm excited!

All of this is in an effort to:
1. Get back into my art - I used to love it until I got busy and distracted in college
2. Relax - Making art is sooo peaceful
3. Try something that could get me a (very) minor supplementary income

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Self Portrait

I made a new blog on blogspot to post my movie reviews, lists, news, pop culture stuff, etc. so I can try to get a little money from ads. I have several people "following" me on Netflix, so I figure there's at least a small market for what I have to say on the subject, and lord knows I talk about movies enough, why not just put it into something that might get me a few extra bucks so I can order a beer at a bar in the city one night and not feel totally guilty.

The Red Head Reviews The Red Head Reviews The Red Head Reviews The Red Head Reviews

Also, I got myself set up on etsy.com so that, if I do make some things here and there, I can put up originals or prints for sale. This really creative girl in Portland has done the same, and has sold 50+ since May for around $15-35 each. Not bad at all!

Anyway, I'm trying to be creative-- not only in the strict sense of the word, but also in my financial dealings. So... there you have it.

The Dark Knight Cast Picspam II: Christian Bale

2008-09-05T01:59:00Z

Since the first TDK Cast Picspam (Aaron Eckhart) I have seen the film for a third time, this time at an IMAX theater 1+ hours away. It was my first double date between Dan and I and our best friend Terko and his girlfriend Jess, which was fun.

It was mostly worth the journey, but don't be fooled-- you're not missing that much if you can't see it in IMAX. My favorite part of this improved viewing was the sound. I felt completely immersed in the sound. It was so loud, so clear, without being deafening. Even though Nolan shot certain sequences in the IMAX format, it was mostly just the helicopter shots over the city. A few of the action sequences would shift briefly into the larger IMAX scale (interestingly enough, when the film changed aspect ratios it wasn't obnoxious as I thought it might be, nor did it detract at all from the viewing). But, it wasn't anything spectacular. Now, if the whole film was in that format, that might have been another story.

And, I must say, it got even better on the third viewing. I was hesitant going into it because it really is such an emotional (not to mention time) investment, but the SECOND of the first shot of Heath's back, holding the clown mask down at his side with a duffel on the other, I was instantly charged and ready.

In any case, getting to the business at hand. Here is a whopping 80+ of my favorite Christian Bale pictures. I liked him well enough in Little Women, but it took me several years (until Batman Begins) to see what so many other people saw in him. Personally, I'd always been bothered by the way he talks (he has a minor lisp), especially how he puckers out his lips when he speaks. Now I kind of find it endearing, and in any way it doesn't matter; he's a great looking guy.

The Christian Bale picspam
Sort of NSFW, if you count behind shots - Includes Pictures and Animations

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He is one of the most dedicated method actors in Hollywood.

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Animations

Post for favorites in the comments!

TDK Cast Picspam I: Aaron Eckhart

The Dark Knight Cast Picspam I: Aaron Eckhart

2008-08-14T23:19:28Z

I saw The Dark Knight for the second time yesterday. There are just so many things that are right with that movie. It wasn't as exhilarating as the first viewing, but it did get even better in a lot of ways. Especially now that I've read so many of the graphic novels that inspired the film, I've noticed so many great nuances.

One of the things that gets better with the second viewing is the character of Harvey Dent. He has such a tortured man. It's really no wonder he went insane. Can you imagine going through the same thing? That Rachel and Harvey scene got even more powerful this time around. I can't imagine that. And then, as a result, one of the final scenes with Gordon's family, Dent, and Batman all together? That is extremely powerful. I was too blown away by other things (namely, Heath Ledger's Joker) when I first saw it to recognize the great emotional elements of the film.

Harvey packs the emotional wallop of TDK. Even though The Joker is heavily featured, this movie is actually the story of Harvey Dent.

And so, I give you part one of a few of the beautiful TDK cast:

The Aaron Eckhart picspam

If you want, spam the comments with others!

On an unrelated note (I'm watching Hannah and her Sisters), I want to like Woody Allen movies, and I kind of do, but what I absolutely cannot get past in any of his films is how impeccably beautiful women are falling in love with neurotic, annoying, small, old, and/or ugly men (often played by Allen himself). This is some kind of odd fantasy element in films that are otherwise incredibly in tune with basic humanity.

Best Movie Scenes, Vol. I

2008-04-06T23:33:56Z

I've been all about lists recently, haven't I? I have all your Top 5 requests to fill still from this week's latest meme. However, I had a spark of inspiration from watching Visions of Light, a documentary about the history of cinematography, and I began to make a list of my own favorite film scenes and sequences. I have so many already that I want to make an ongoing series of it. I don't know if there's any interest, but I think it will be cool at least for me to look back on.

There is a minor rhyme or reason to this:
• Of course, there are tons of more official "best scenes ever" lists out there, and mine will only moderately mirror them. I am, of course, no professional. This is simply a film fan's tribute to the favorite moments in my movie-watching experience.
• The picking of the scene has to come from a film I have actually seen.
• It has to be a scene that struck me then for one reason or another: cinematography, photography, performance, music, sound, effects, direction, or all of the above. So, this is not simply a "Best Cinematography" list.
• Where necessary, I'll include an explanation of why I chose one scene or another.
• There are some of my absolute all-time favorite films that won't be on this list. This is about the power of a single scene. Some favorite films are marked by several stand-out scenes.
• Appears in no particular order

Overall, the criteria for this list is that whenever I watch these scenes during the movie or on their own, I either laugh, tear up, cry, or get the chills.

1. À bout de souffle (Breathless) - 1960
Michel: How old are you?
Patricia: A hundred.
Michel: You don't look it.

À bout de souffle's intimate 20+ minute scene of the American Patricia returning to her Parisian apartment to find a half-naked lover, Michel, in her bed.
They talk, flirt, smoke, fight... Meanwhile, Michel is trying the whole time to tell her he loves her and begs her to sleep with him. She refuses many times, but eventually, they hide under the white sheets like innocent children, and make love.

All this takes place in a cramped urban apartment. Sometimes the wailing sirens heard through the open window drown out what they're saying. You literally feel like you're sitting on the bed with the two of them, watching them as they move about the small space. This scene (and this film as a whole) is a big turning point in cinema. From it emerged the more documentary-style realism in film.

This scene alone skyrocketed this film into one of my favorites of all time.

Here's a clip where Patricia asks if Michel would pick grief or nothing, and he chooses nothing. Watch at 43 seconds where Michel plays with his lower lip, which he does frequently throughout the film. *MELTS*

I fell in love with them and their simple dialog. This scene will have the most "style" of most scenes on this list. It's very French, very cool.

Here's a famous segment from the scene, in which Michel tries to get Patricia to smile for him. He tells her, "All right, I'll count to 8, and if you haven't smiled, I'll strangle you," and puts his hands around neck. But, even though they're in a threatening position, they're caressing her.

2. Almost Famous - 2000
Hey, Lady!

William and Penny say goodbye to each other at the airport, and William runs after her alongside the plane
For the coming-of-age tale, this scene is the ultimate moment of William's adolescence. Penny is his first love, and here is where he loses it. She boards a plane and he runs alongside it as it taxis away, like the modern day version of the person running after the train their lover is leaving on. The best part is that Penny feels it, too. You can see the perfect amount of sadness grow gradually in her eyes until finally she looks out the window and sees William running there. The music is bittersweet, building to a climax until William meets the end of his run and presses against the glass, letting her go.

3. The Sound of Music - 1965
The hills fill my heart
With the sound of music
My heart wants to sing every song
It hears

The hills are alive with the sound of music.
Quite possibly one of the most recognizable scenes ever made. The scenery is just absolutely stunning. As the camera zooms in, you see a woman walking along the top of the hills. Then, she throws out her arms and spins and sings, "The hills are alive with the sound of music!" in one of the most classic and most mimicked scenes of all time.

Liesl and Rolf sing 'Sixteen Going on Seventeen' in a gazebo.
What sixteen year old girl does not sing this song at least once? This is one of my favorite songs of all time. When I was young, I looked up to Liesl like a cool older sister who was beautiful and mature and had a cute boyfriend (of course, until he became a Nazi). This scene/song felt so iconic to me as a young girl on the verge of becoming a woman. I used to dream of acting it out with a significant other. I have yet to fulfill that dream.

4. Edward Scissorhands - 1990

The "Ice Dance" scene shows Christmas in warm suburbia when Kim looks out and sees snow is falling, thanks to Edward's ice carving.
It is set to Danny Elfman's pefectly-composed song of the same name. In a beautifully simplistic way, Kim is seen dancing happily in the snow, and you start to understand that, in some way, she loves Edward just as he loves her.

Edward and Kim hug
The triumph of love over any obstacle is rarely so well depicted as Kim giving Edward a hug despite his long, sharp hands. I always thought that Kim was the pinnacle of kindness and empathy, and looked up to her for it. This scene shows it best of all.

5. Finding Neverland - 2004
Clap your hands if you believe!

The parlor performance of Peter Pan for the dying Sylvia.
This scene sticks with you primarily for the performance Kate Winslet (Sylvia) does with her eyes. She is devastatingly sad, but at the same time content, as she watches a play written about her children who will always be her little boys. When the characters clap their hands furiously to show that they believe in fairies, the "curtain" goes up and their imaginations reveal Neverland to them. Sylvia is taken off into Neverland like their queen, and that is where she will stay-- in the land where her little boys never grow old.

The final scene
Peter: It's just-- I thought she'd always be here
Jame: So did I. But in fact, she is, because she's on every page of your imagination. You'll always have her there. Always... She went to Neverland, and you can visit her anytime you like if you just go there yourself.
Peter: How?
James: By believing, Peter. Just believe.

Is there a dry eye in the room after this point? If so, you have no soul. This tear-jerking finale to the fantastic Finding Neverland might end up being little Freddie Highmore's best performance of his life. As the quiet young boy with painfully real tears in his eyes, he tries to understand his mother's death with James' help. Meanwhile, they're sitting on a park bench, with a two rows of trees framing them and stretching out into the distance, which adds incredible depth to this solemn scene.

Hope you enjoyed that! If you did, let me know. I'll feel better about keeping going in the future if I'm not the only one enjoying myself haha...

Movies, Books, & TV 2008

2008-01-02T03:04:32Z

Complete List of Movies I've Seen in 2008

	TITLE	REVIEW	RATING
01.	Master and Commander
02.	Legally Blonde*
03.	No Country for Old Men*
04.	The Laramie Project
05.	Working Girl	here
06.	Like Water for Chocolate
07.	Soldier's Girl
08.	Wristcutters: A Love Story
09.	Fever Pitch (1997)
10.	Monty Python and the Holy Grail*
11.	The Lives of Others
12.	Norma Rae
13.	Stardust
14.	Lars and the Real Girl (x3)	here
15.	Dear Frankie
16.	Jesus Camp
17.	Sunshine
18.	Michael Clayton
19.	My Life Without Me
20.	Interview With A Vampire	here
21.	All About Eve	here
22.	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly**	here
23.	Aliens (Special Edition)	here
24.	Waitress	here
25.	Becoming Jane
26.	3:10 to Yuma
27.	Driving Lessons
28.	French Kiss
29.	Killer of Sheep
30.	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	here
31.	There Will Be Blood
32.	2 Days in Paris	here
33.	Welcome to Durham
34.	Troy
35.	Traffic
36.	This Boy's Life
37.	Ordinary People
38.	I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
39.	The Great Debaters	here
40.	Casino	here
41.	Candy	here
42.	A Good Year
43.	La Vie En Rose*
44.	War Dance	here
45.	Thelma and Louise
46.	Elling
47.	The Client
48.	Empire of the Sun
49.	No End In Sight
50.	The Brave One
51.	Tsotsi	here
52.	Jeux interdits	here
53.	The Missing	here
54.	Tootsie
55.	Les Jolies Choses (Pretty Things)
56.	The Affair of the Necklace
57.	Thirteen	here
58.	Cashback
59.	Spellbound
60.	Center Stage*
61.	Fried Green Tomatoes*
62.	In the Valley of Elah
63.	Gorillas in the Mist
64.	Coal Miner's Daughter
65.	Life as a House
66.	A Mighty Heart
67.	I Could Never Be Your Woman
68.	Wit
69.	American History X*
70.	Efter brylluppet (After the Wedding)
71.	Gia
72.	Forget Paris
73.	A Cry in the Dark
74.	Se, Jie (Lust, Caution)
75.	I Am Legend *
76.	Dan In Real Life	here
77.	Into the Wild
78.	Man in the Moon
79.	Taking Lives
80.	The Assassination of Jesse James
81.	La Mala Educación (Bad Education)
82.	Sybil
83.	Camille Claudel
84.	Taxi to the Dark Side
85.	Margot at the Wedding	here
86.	Taxi Driver
87.	Children of a Lesser God
88.	The 400 Blows
89.	For The Bible Tells Me So
90.	The Basketball Diaries
91.	Lust och fägring stor (All Things Fair)
92.	À bout de souffle (Breathless)
93.	All the Real Girls
94.	Visions of Light
95.	Marvin's Room
96.	Psycho
97.	Operation Homecoming
98.	Mean Streets
99.	Charlie Wilson's War
100.	Rescue Dawn
101.	Kicking and Screaming (1995)
102.	The Machinist
103.	The Abyss
104.	Pierrot Le Fou
105.	Pote tin Kyriaki (Never On Sunday)
106.	Hoop Dreams
107.	The Thing
108.	The Savages
109.	Baby Mama** (x3)	here
110.	The Thin Blue Line
111.	Veronica Guerin
112.	10,000 B.C.
113.	Shattered Glass
114.	Elizabeth: The Golden Age
115.	War Games
116.	American Graffiti
117.	So Weit Die Fube Tragen (As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me)
118.	The Horse Whisperer*
119.	Year of the Dog
120.	Flakes
121.	Ratatouille
122.	Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage (Sophie Scholl: The Final Days)
123.	Overboard*
124.	Dark Beauty (Lifetime movie, for ridiculous enjoyment only)
125.	One True Thing
126.	Inventing the Abbotts
127.	God Grew Tired of Us*
128.	Kissing Jessica Stein
129.	Bringing Up Baby
130.	El Orfanato (The Orphanage)
131.	Jerry Seinfeld: I'm Telling You for the Last Time
132.	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull**
133.	Sense and Sensibility (2008 BBC)
134.	Iron Man**
135.	P.S. I Love You
136.	Close Encounters of the Third Kind
137.	Rosemary's Baby
138.	Mongol
139.	The Good Girl*
140.	Wait Until Dark
141.	Grace is Gone
142.	The Human Stain
143.	Star Wars: Return of the Jedi*
144.	One Hour Photo
145.	The Four Feathers
146.	Sherman's March
147.	La Veuve de Saint Pierre (The Widow of St. Pierre)
148.	Prime Suspect
149.	Antz*
150.	Now, Voyager
151.	Rushmore
152.	Big*
153.	Liar Liar*
154.	Incredible Hulk**
155.	Sex and the City: The Movie
156.	Funny Games
157.	Be Kind Rewind
158.	Fool's Gold
159.	The Bourne Supremacy*
160.	Alien 3
161.	Die Hard
162.	The Andromeda Strain
163.	Control	here
164.	Le Mépris (Contempt)
165.	Brief Encounter
166.	Death at a Funeral
167.	Donnie Brasco
168.	2001: A Space Odyssey
169.	King of California
170.	This is England	here
171.	Amelie*
172.	The People vs. Larry Flynt
173.	Suspicion
174.	Bella Martha (Mostly Martha)
175.	WALL-E**	here
176.	The Mist (Bonus Material B&W version)	here
177.	My Blueberry Nights
178.	Strangers on a Train	here
179.	Cocoon	here
180.	Places in the Heart	here
181.	Full Metal Jacket	here
182.	Boy A	here
183.	Titanic (1953)
184.	Wanted**
185.	Do The Right Thing
186.	25th Hour
187.	The Dark Knight (x2)**	here
188.	History of the World Part 1
189.	Transformers
190.	Batman*
191.	Building the Alaska Highway
192.	21
193.	Grease*
194.	Alaska (1996)
195.	Tropic Thunder**
196.	Hannah and Her Sisters
197.	Meet Bill	here
198.	Heavy Metal in Baghdad
199.	Brubaker
200.	Batman: Gotham Knight
201.	Joy Division (2007)
202.	The Dark Knight: IMAX Experience**
203.	Semi-Pro
204.	The Game
205.	New York documentary (1999)
206.	Fall From Grace
207.	Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
208.	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
209.	Get Smart** (x2)
210.	Boys on the Side
211.	The Happening	here
212.	The Strangers	here
213.	Cassandra's Dream
214.	Spanglish*
215.	Dawn of the Dead
216.	Malice
217.	Forgetting Sarah Marshall
218.	Legally Blonde*
219.	Burn After Reading**
220.	Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (x2)
221.	Rocky
222.	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
223.	Lost Boys of Sudan
224.	All the President's Men
225.	In Bruges
226.	Mad Max
227.	Son of Rambow
228.	Kathy Griffin: Allegedly
229.	Goodfellas*
230.	The Power of Nightmares
231.	Horton Hears a Who
232.	Robot Chicken Star Wars
233.	The Visitor	here
234.	Autism: The Musicial
235.	Happy-Go-Lucky	here
236.	The Fall
237.	Zack and Miri Make a Porno**	here
238.	Children of Paradise
239.	Changeling**	here
240.	Croupier
241.	Dog Day Afternoon
242.	Then She Found Me
243.	Body Heat
244.	The Thin Man	here
245.	Quantum of Solace**	here
246.	The Bank Job
247.	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
248.	Role Models	here
249.	After the Thin Man
250.	Bigger, Faster, Stronger
251.	Undercover Blues
252.	What Happened in Vegas
253.	Magnolia
254.	Star Trek VII: Generations
255.	Milk	here
256.	Revolutionary Road**	here
257.	The Others*
258.	Transsiberian
259.	Star Trek VIII: First Contact
260.	Burn After Reading*
261.	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button**	here
262.	Hamlet</small>*</small>
263.	Miss Austen Regrets
264.	Wendy and Lucy

* not the first viewing
** in the theaters

TV Seasons I've Completed in 2008

	TITLE	REVIEW	RATING
01.	Mad Men S1
02.	The Office S4
03.	30 Rock S2
04.	Lost S4
05.	Mad Men S2
06.	Project Runway S5
07.	Pushing Daisies S1
08.	Dexter S3
09.	The Sopranos S1

My movie star ratings are based on my ratings on Netflix. They say:
= Hated It
= Didn't Like It
= Liked It
= Really Liked It
= Loved It

Complete List of Books I've Read in 2008

(doesn't include books read for school)

	TITLE	REVIEW	RATING
01.	The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion	here
02.	The Road, Cormac McCarthy
03.	A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book, Frank Warren
04.	Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky
05.	The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver	here
06.	Timeline, Michael Crichton
07.	Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
08.	Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
09.	The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
10.	Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
11.	Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
12.	I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron
13.	Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis
14.	The Stand, Stephen King	here
15.	Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis
16.	Ladies of Liberty, Cokie Roberts
17.	A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
18.	Blindness, José Saramago	here, here
19.	Where Angels Fear to Tread, E.M. Forster
20.	Batman: Year One, Frank Miller
21.	Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller
22.	Cold Spring Harbor, Richard Yates
23.	Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?, Alan Moore
24.	DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore, Alan Moore
25.	Batman: The Long Halloween, Jeph Loeb	here
26.	Batman: Dark Victory, Jeph Loeb
27.	The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
28.	Watchmen, Alan Moore
29.	Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership, Madeleine Albright
30.	Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush, Pierre Berton	here
31.	The Killing Joke, Alan Moore
32.	The Collected Stories of Richard Yates, Richard Yates	here
33.	The Haunted Knight, Jeph Loeb
34.	Batman: Hush, Vol. 1, Jeph Loeb
35.	Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines, Nic Sheff
36.	The Arrival, Shaun Tan
37.	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1, Alan Moore
38.	Infected, Scott Sigler
39.	Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides	here
40.	Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris	here
41.	The Innocent, Harlan Coben
42.	Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert T. Kiyosaki
43.	The Easter Parade, Richard Yates
44.	Debt-Free by 30: Practical Advice for the Young, Broke, and Upwardly Mobile , Jason Anthony
45.	The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke, Suze Orman
46.	Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns
47.	Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland
48.	Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
49.	The Little Book, Selden Edwards

My book star ratings are based on my ratings on Goodreads. They say:
= Didn't Like It
= It Was OK
= Liked It
= Really Liked It
= It Was Amazing

Friends Cut.

2007-02-02T02:56:19Z

Sorry guys, I really had to slim down my Friends List to those I was closest to. I just don't have enough time to read through all my friends list these days. I really apologize. It's me, not you. I just have absolutely no time. No hard feelings, I hope.

Movies, Books, & TV 2007

2007-01-04T15:41:12Z

Complete List of Movies I've Seen in 2007

	TITLE	REVIEW	RATING
01.	Big	here
02.	Elizabeth I (the mini-series)	here
03.	Little Miss Sunshine	here
04.	Little Children	here, here
05.	Borat	here
06.	Blood Diamond	here
07.	Pan's Labyrinth	here
08.	Science of Sleep	here
09.	Children of Men	here
10.	Green Street Hooligans	here
11.	Marie Antoinette	here, here
12.	The Squid and the Whale	here
13.	Mozart and the Whale	here
14.	Half Nelson	here
15.	An Inconvenient Truth	here, here
16.	Catch a Fire	here
17.	The Number 23	here
18.	American Psycho	here
19.	Rounders	here
20.	Enemy of the State	here
21.	The Usual Suspects	here
22.	Babel (x2)	here
23.	For Your Consideration	here
24.	Casablanca	here
25.	Speak	here
26.	Corrina, Corrina (x4)
27.	Finding Neverland
28.	Before Sunrise
29.	The Prestige
30.	Trainspotting
31.	Meet Me in St. Louis
32.	Cold Mountain (x2)
33.	Pelican Brief
34.	Erin Brockovich
35.	The Believer
36.	Happy Feet
37.	Amadeus
38.	Born into Brothels
39.	Run Lola Run
40.	The Fountain
41.	King Arthur
42.	Stranger Than Fiction (x2)
43.	Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
44.	Quills
45.	The Queen
46.	The Good Shepherd
47.	Because I Said So
48.	The Pursuit of Happyness
49.	Dreamgirls
50.	The Last King of Scotland
51.	28 Weeks Later	here
52.	A Very Brady Sequel
53.	In the Bedroom
54.	Before Sunset	here
55.	Eragon
56.	Knocked Up (x2)	here
57.	Notes on a Scandal
58.	Volver
59.	THX 1138 Special Edition
60.	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
61.	Somewhere in Time
62.	You Can Count on Me
63.	Reno 911!: Miami
64.	Children of Heaven
65.	Match Point
66.	La Vie En Rose (x2)	here, here
67.	License to Wed	here
68.	Terms of Endearment
69.	Amores Perros
70.	Scenes from a Marriage (theatrical)
71.	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
72.	The Painted Veil
73.	My Cousin Vinny
74.	A History of Violence
75.	The Simpsons Movie
76.	Zodiac
77.	The Right Stuff
78.	Bourne Ultimatum
79.	Y Tu Mama Tambien
80.	The Secretary
81.	The Double Life of Veronique
82.	The Invasion
83.	American Beauty
84.	Fight Club
85.	Rush Hour 2
86.	The General's Daughter
87.	Mystic River
88.	Muriel's Wedding
89.	Superbad	here
90.	Heavenly Creatures
91.	Blades of Glory
92.	Au revoir, les enfants
93.	Out of Africa	here
94.	Sideways	here
95.	Waiting for Guffman
96.	The Candidate
97.	Boys Don't Cry	here
98.	Zelary	here
99.	Elizabeth
100.	The Moth
101.	Rain Man	here
102.	The Horseman on the Roof
103.	Awakenings
104.	Blue
105.	Good Morning, Vietnam
106.	Ocean's 13
107.	Witness
108.	Ratcatcher
109.	Ballad of a Soldier (Ballada o soldate)
110.	Angela's Ashes
111.	Away From Her
112.	Fur
113.	Kingdom of Heaven
114.	Harold and Maude
115.	A Room With a View
116.	The Joy Luck Club
117.	The Titanic (mini-series)
118.	The Jerk
119.	Amazing Grace
120.	Mr. Brooks
121.	Snow Falling on Cedars
122.	Cache
123.	Le Jeux D'Enfants (Love Me If You Dare)
124.	Someone Like You
125.	Dreamer
126.	Enchanted
127.	Beyond Borders
128.	Sophie's Choice
129.	8mm
130.	American Gangster
131.	Eastern Promises
132.	Eagle vs. Shark
133.	Alien
134.	Paris, Je T'aime
135.	Planet Terror
136.	Cinderella Man (x2)
137.	Airplane
138.	House of Sand and Fog
139.	Falling in Love
140.	Invincible
141.	Le Dîner de cons
142.	I Am Legend	here
143.	No Country for Old Men	here
144.	Persuasion
145.	Joyeux Noel
146.	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
147.	Cries and Whispers
148.	Brokeback Mountain	here
149.	Gone, Baby, Gone	here
150.	Once	here
151.	Emma
152.	Hard Candy	here
153.	Juno	here
154.	Atonement	here
155.	Dead Man Walking

Complete List of Books I've Read in 2007

(doesn't include books read for school)

	TITLE	REVIEW	RATING
01.	Thirteen Moons, Charles Frazier	here
02.	Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy	here
03.	The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger	here
04.	Middlemarch, George Eliot		only read 1/2, lost interest
05.	Ragged Dick (Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks), Horatio Alger, Jr.
06.	Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
07.	Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, J. K. Rowling
08.	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling
09.	Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen	here
10.	Atonement, Ian McEwan	here

TV
01. Lost (S3)
02. Grey's Anatomy (S3- stopped towards the end)
03. 30 Rock (S1, S2) (x2)
04. The Office (S3, S4)
05. Veronica Mars (S2)
06. Dexter (S1, S2) (x2)
07. The Hills (S1, S2)
08. America's Next Top Model
09. Engaged and Underaged (S1)
10. Planet Earth
11. I Love New York (S1, S2)
12. West Wing (S1)
13. Battlestar Galactica (mini-series, S1-S3)
14. Law & Order SVU (S7, S8)
15. Pushing Daisies (S1)
16. The Life of Ryan (S1)
17. Project Runway (S4)
18. My So Called Life

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